VS .NET 2002 Web Projects require security tweak on W2K3

Those of you trying to develop Web Projects with Windows 2003 may run into a small security problem.  The error you get is “Unable to create Web project.  (blah blah)  The two need to map to the same server location.  HTTP error 404.”

There is a Microsoft KB article here that explains the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=327283

Basically, what's happening is that VS .NET 2002 is trying to download a .tmp file.  IIS6 blocks .tmp files as default, which I assume gives rise to the 404 error.  There are two workarounds.  One - upgrade to VS .NET 2003 (thanks MS).  The other is explained in the KB article and involves mapping the .tmp file to a MIME type so that IIS6 will serve the files properly.

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